I suppose they can't sell it because nobody coming around knows what it is - i am not exactly living in a high tek area and most of their customers look for old machinery, not for electronic stuff. I had a little talk with the guy who runs the place this afternoon - they bought all the electro stuff from our ex-national air company Sabena who went to heaven after a "succesfull" joint-venture with air-suisse. They had tons of pc stuff they could sell pretty easy (who the hell bought all this old 486 Compaq's) The radio equipment is only good for scrap - mostly old Pye transceivers on very un-usual frequency bands (70MHz range) and some air-band stuff What's left is scrapped for aluminium, copper, gold and so on... among them this 9825A - I think I'll buy it tomorrow if they give it away for let's say 10-20 Euro I've seen also a few dozen Ampex 16 track recorders - nice technology but what to do with it? Besides they are standing outside in the rain, stacked 10 high... poor devils... I 'll let you know what options it has... Luc -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]Namens Joe Verzonden: woensdag 27 augustus 2003 12:50 Aan: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Onderwerp: Re: HP 9825A rescue? At 01:36 PM 8/28/03 +0200, you wrote: Why can't they sell it? Yes but it sounds like you don't have any choice. They're relatively common in this area but I'm close to several large military contractors and Kennedy Space Center and they use a lot of them. But they are neat machines and seem to run forever. It's probably one of the best machines that HP ever built IMO. They run a OS/language called HPL. It's a cross between APL and BASIC. Lots more details on my website at <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/hpdcalc.htm>. What model is it? Open the paper cover and see what options it has. Joe